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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
and is used by perfumers as well as by physicians. The flower of benzoin is an 
excellent pectoral medicine, and is used also to remove obstructions. 
%* We shall still have occasion to make frequent mention of the Isle of Bourbon 
in the accounts which will follow of the Isle of France, with whose history it is evi¬ 
dently connected, and particularly as they are both under the general jurisdiction of 
the same governors. The description of the Isle of France which has been already 
given, contains a chronological table of all its governors from its first discovery. As it 
furnishes but few interesting events till the arrival of M. de la Bourdonnais, and as the 
most authentic and instructive materials, since the commencement of his government, 
are to be found in the correspondence of Baron Grant, who was not only an eye 
witness of, but absolutely engaged in, that administration, during a period of eleven 
years; we shall proceed to give his letters in a regular series, which will communicate 
every thing that is to be known of the civil and military history of this island, with 
the manners and customs of the inhabitants, for the space of twenty years, without 
the least interruption. 
